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It’s amazing he turned out to be a good bordering great wrestler because he was mediocre to poor as a manager and horrible as a color commentator from everything I have seen. He kind of reversed Jesse Ventura’s career trajectory.
 

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I'm not even a big DDP fan but there is no way I would've given him the chances he got. He was arguably bad more than he was good.

I wish Jimmy Garvin had stuck around as a commentator though. That just amuses me.
 

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Jimmy Garvin’s one WWF television appearance ended up being immortalized on WrestleMania: The Album so there have been worse runs.

If DDP never befriends Eric Bischoff, he either goes down as one of the most annoying but forgettable non wrestling personalities of the ‘80s or a weirdly underrated ECW mid card guy.
 

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DDP did color commentary for Dusty's Florida promotion that Dusty ran briefly between leaving NWA and joining WWF and he was awful
 

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It's a little surprising Vince didn't sign DDP just to mess with Verne in 1988 when he was technically the top heel manager in the AWA. Call it the Rod Trongard rule.
DDP ended up wandering off to the east coast indies in 1989.
*Awaits @Holiday Spice Kamala throwing a rock at me for ignoring DDP's WM 6 appearance
 

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Yeah DDP's relationship with Bischoff is never really brought up when talking about his success but Dallas was a super hardworking, gracious worker regardless. I think he would have made it to the of the mountain eventually.
 

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I moved this discussion about DDP’s career trajectory to the WCW thread cause it is not appropriate for a WWF 1984 to 1992 thread. Unless we are talking about the aforementioned audition tape with Awful Alfred (or him driving Rhythm & Blues to the ring in his pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI, @BruiserBrody )
 

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I like that the one Title Match there doesn't even get names listed and gets shunted to the bottom of the ad...
 

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I was pretty legit sad when PTW ended to pave the way for Monday Night Raw. I think it was because of the fact that it went from two hours to one hour.

I wonder how excited 11 year old Gert would have been about 3 hour Monday Night Raw's....?
 

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Randomly watched the 1987 NYE PTW this AM. Heenan and Monsoon were great as always. It opens with Macho Man vs Killer Khan, has lots of garbage in between and ends with Jake vs Honky. Dibiase ends up paying Heenan off and taking over the heel side of the show.
The Royal Rumble report has a Killer Bees vs Demolition match advertised.
There was a good post squash brawl with Patera/Haynes and Demolition.
Most notably for me, the show featured the Matilda dog-napping angle. As I've noted before, as a 5 year old in love with his beagles, this one hit me on a personal level.
 

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In all seriousness, their shared experiences of having to grow up with their daddies on the road, plus getting to maybe hear about the wacky road stories that were passed down etc. Bulldog is the only one of those guys with noted drug issues, but his kids have shared tons of pics of him playing with them, etc in their youth.
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Watching PTW NYE 1990 as I waste time before my buddies come over for our lifelong friends/single geeks Xmas party in an hour. A promising line up for WWF "work rate" Snuka vs Savage, Marty vs Martel, Shawn vs Million Dollar Man, plus the Bushwackers finally blow off that WM 6 feud with Honky and the Hammer before Honky can quit and Hammer can turn.
Monsoon promises the Rosatti Sisters are coming to visit Bobby on the show. A win!
How old is this Macho Man match? He's wearing short trunks yet. Was he rocking the shorts on house shows yet and the pants look for TV/PPV?


OMG Commercials!! GOT MILK! Little Girl drinks milk to get sexy. I'm conflicted.
VAN DAMME.... Lionheart? Legit have no idea about this one. Awesome side burns on the heavy!
DOCTOR MARIO. Marking out!!
USA showing 3 Porky films in a row to ring in 1991. Courtesy pillow please!

Looked it up...Snuka/Macho was from Oct 89! Good grief.
The security guard looking sort of bored by this trope match layout in his funny hat is the highlight of the match.
Snuka beats Savage several times with Sherri doing her thing and eventually the ref being bumped. More cheating KOs Snuka and Macho steals a win. This guy was supposed to be a threat to the Warrior when he gets his ass beat by Snuka? Yes, I know Snuka was better protected in late 89 compared to the end of 90
 
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I remember watching that show live. My mother let me stay up late for the
New Year. Felt the same way about Snuka/Savage. I was wondering why Macho was wearing trunks and why he had to cheat so much to beat Snuka.
 
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OMG!!!
Monsoon as the Judge
Heenan as the sleazy D.A.
Andre as Bull
Moolah is the chain smoking wise cracking female bailiff
Guffawing Tony Atlas as Mac
Liz as Christine Sullivan, with Macho Man in the front row eyeballing her every move.
Joey Marella plays the blind newspaper salesman (Ref joke)
George Steele plays Homeless Phil.
The rest of the WWF circus rotates in as the criminals.
Pimp Slick, Fuji the small time street racketeering expert
Hillbilly Jim as the leader of the simple Appalachian clan
Volkoff as Yakoff Smirnoff's immigrant gimmick

*unzips pants*
 

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I "enjoyed" the early TNT episode where they just troll Verne by showing Mad Dog Vachon's WWF Twin Cities debut (not the match, just the intro) and had Hogan cut a promo on how Al ReRusha was now behind the camera here in the WWF. Who knows if Verne ever saw it since he apparently didn't have cable.
Without digging in my notes for the exact details, I can say it was reported in the sheets that the TNT goofiness triggered Verne so much that he moved the syndication in one of his major markets to go head to head with it on Tuesday nights.
 
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